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A huge thank you to Jamie for my birthday present- it was my 60th last November- 2 beautiful Red TB arrived today- gorgeous looking boys that will be put to good use with my Red breeding program- Red Tibees, Marbled Tibees , Fancy Tibees and Mischlings. Photos later when they have settled. I also received my pair of Dumbo plakats- not from Jamie but I won these in an auction so it's a great daty today for me! Thanks again Jamie I am very very happy

Excellent setup and colours on your shrimp mate. Thanks for sharing. I find it interesting that you are using RO and benibachi salts. What are your water parameters?

Awesome stuff Ineke & well done Jamie!

Hi I have these little cool shrimp too . mine are all sorted colors from clear, black and white , reds, chocolate, pure black and and one blue I noticed when they were in another tank with light colored substrate their colors were weak. So i transfered them to a tank with very dark substrate and within a few days they all changed colors and very stunning to look at now

Belated Happy Birthday Ineke! Sounds like awesome gifts. Congrats! Cant wait to see the pics.

I am very fortunate to have a lovely GF who loves to travel and accompany me and put up with my crazy antics. She is willing to travel to different parts of Asia with me (as I've openly refused her suggestions to travel to Europe and other parts of the world ). I’m just lucky that the parts of the world I like to travel to is big on shrimping. It’s my way of “hitting two birds with one stone” sort of thinking. Who knows, maybe I'll visit HK again and visit Mr. Shrimpy Daddy in the near future. It also helps that she speaks Cantonese and has an excellent sense of direction. I rely heavily on her when I'm in Asia. It helps to have a GF that can communicate with the vendors in HK (Cantonese dominate zone). Haha! The JRB and JBB have excellent shape and posture. They really look amazing. The transparent one is a very young shrimp, but I am also wondering why it looks the way it does. I've been back and forth with SD about the possible causes. I believe the culprit is the tank size. Due to the size of the tank, my dosing of minerals and traces is off. I believe my traces and minerals inside the 25G Cubes are lower in levels than compared to my other tanks. I’m working on fixing these issues before I report back. I definitely agree that culling aggressively is key to having the best shrimps. I'm also keeping a close eye on the tank. I've been culling whenever I'm over at the house. Interestingly, a few of babies that I did cull undergone a darkening of their red coverage area as they matured. I've added these back to the main tank but am still keeping a close eye on them. Tell you what though. My JRB require more work than my JBB. Nearly all the JBB babies are super awesome.

Thanks guys for tips. Btw Ineke, your rolled leaves do look like vine leaves - looks appetising.

WEEK 9 Week 9 now, just had a quick look at the tank and noticed my first juvi CRS in there, can't see any others but I'm sure there are more as there were 2 berried females in there, so looking good, things are still going well, have stopped using AquaGreen's Dino Pee and Spit as I think I might go a more natural approach.